To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.
To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
To get free; to free oneself.
To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
escape key
A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
A successful shot from a snooker position.
The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
Something that has escaped; an escapee.
An apophyge.
To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.
To try to find something; search (for).
To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
To shift up and down in order regularly.
To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
A pack of hunting dogs.
A hunting expedition.
An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
The act of hunting.